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MR. LEWIS ABBOTT'S letter in NATURE of October 22 is almost entirely irrelevant to the subject of my communication to NATURE of September 24. In this note I dealt solely with one form of flint fracture, viz., the large, flat, non-conchoidal fractures, surfaces which are produced by a certain type of “cleaving” blow, and pointed out how it is possible to determine the natute and direction of the fracturing-agent by the recognition of the fissures of varying size radiating from the point of impact. Mr. Abbott, however, states, these “are certainly not fissures”; but an examination of these markings upon a flint and a reference to the meaning of the word “fissure” in a dictionary will convince anyone that my description is correct.
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MOIR, J. Flint Fracture. Nature 94, 227 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094227a0
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